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Tuesday, 27 March 2012

Librarians report for the month of March

Dear Parents and Grandparents,

We made rainbows, leaf friends, fairy paths (okra printing) and color monsters. We chatted about healthy foods and food labels. I also shared information about my identify and roots from India. Please ask your children 'What do the lions stand for in the Asoka Chakra and the Indian Emblem.' We celebrated Dr. Seuss birthday by reading books about Dr. Seuss and the books written by Dr.Seuss. Students received pencils, stickers, bookmarks and coloring sheets. We celebrated World Storytelling Day and this year's theme was trees and we spoke about different types of trees.

When the students come to the library; I usually keep some a variety of books to read to them or to do a book talk. The program is created based on the 'reading motivation' of our students. For example; Week 1 for Kindergarten to Grade 2 students, the theme was elephants and then we read some nonfiction and fiction books about elephants.

Library skills are built in the content we read and discuss. We also discussed measurement. How would you measure an elephant? An elephant's trunk is 2 meters long. Watch our Grade 2 students conducting St. Patrick's Day research at the library. http://schoollibraryservices.blogspot.ca/2012/03/facts-about-ireland-research-at-library.html

Here below are the various ways in which we will celebrate and welcome the month of April.

Read more at http://schoollibraryservices.blogspot.caThe students of Grade 3A achieved their reading goals and received books as rewards. And, thank you so much for dropping in the library during the Celebration of Learning. We would like to invite you to come, meet an author Marina Endicott and learn how to get your book published on Wednesday, March 28, 1 pm. Marina Endicott was born in Golden, BC, and grew up with three sisters and a brother, mostly in Nova Scotia and Toronto. She worked as an actor and director before going to England, where she began to write fiction. After London she went west to Saskatoon, where she was dramaturge at the Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre for many years before going farther west to Mayerthorpe, Alberta; she now lives in Edmonton. Her first novel, Open Arms, was short-listed for the Amazon/Books In Canada First Novel award in 2002. Her second,Good to a Fault, was a finalist for the 2008 Giller Prize and won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, Canada/Caribbean region. The Little Shadows, her latest book, longlisted for the 2011 Giller Prize, was a finalist for this year's Governor General's Award and will be published in the UK and Australia in spring 2012. She is at work on a new novel, Hughtopia.